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- noun Plural form of
amygdala .
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Examples
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Specifically: Conservatives have brains in which areas called amygdalas, which are associated with fear and emotion, are larger.
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Infants are born with relatively well-developed amygdalas, which is why they’re so good at being frightened right out of the gate.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Infants are born with relatively well-developed amygdalas, which is why they’re so good at being frightened right out of the gate.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Infants are born with relatively well-developed amygdalas, which is why they’re so good at being frightened right out of the gate.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Infants are born with relatively well-developed amygdalas, which is why they’re so good at being frightened right out of the gate.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Somewhere deep in our amygdalas we know how powerful our mastery over this primal force is, and how much that mastery separates us from all other living things.
Young Men and Fire Adam Savage 2011
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None of this violence was gratuitous, in my opinion, but what if a study was conducted about mystery writers and their amygdalas?
The Reality of Violence | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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Their amygdalas—the almond-shaped region in the brain that deals with emotion—are overly active, even hyperactive see Figure 1.2.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Their amygdalas—the almond-shaped region in the brain that deals with emotion—are overly active, even hyperactive see Figure 1.2.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Then, in discussion, someone asked Newberg what Obama should say that would calm people's amygdalas.
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